skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, Wall Street lives off of skimming fees from the retail investor, and now they cry when the masses cause them pain?

Won't anyone shed a tear for the masters of the universe?

Aren't these 2/20 "investment managers" supposed to hedge their positions with other derivatives (i.e. options.) ? So much for risk managers and the VaR metric (I know that has fallen out of favor since the last crisis' 10 sigma event.)
Kettling is one of the less provocative tactics, but it's intended as a collective punishment of the kettled: extra-legal detention for a period of hours with no food, water or toilet facilities.

Police can and will provoke non-violent protests to violence. In a few cases (see the UK's "spycops" scandal) police infiltrators will organise protests so they can arrest dissidents.
I mean, there are a lot of good reasons to question Tesla's valuation, but the panel gaps is a weird one. Tesla has accomplished putting together the best mass market electric vehicle and selling it for a profit (with government incentives, albeit). There are a LOT of people who can figure out panel gaps. There are not a lot of people who can figure out how to make the economics and supply chain for electric cars work. The fact that they haven't made that a priority speaks to Tesla's priorities, not their abilities.
> How many developers that could evolve into great developers have been stunted because someone denied them the opportunity to become competent?

Nobody is denying anyone. The code is there to read as an example. If an aspiring developer hasn't got the initiative to develop at least a basic level of competence on their own, that's their problem. What happened to self-reliance?
Tesla is one of the few modern companies whose value actually makes sense to me. They actually make something! that people want to buy! that's way better than most of ad-tech which seems like a multi-layered pyramid scheme.
You must be missing a rash of people outside of the wsb sphere trying to create accounts with brokerages, have no idea what investment is, and trying to buy GME or others.

Those are the ones who would be left holding the bag when the music stops.
I hope this stays on the frontpage of Hacker News for months to come.
Only those that got in late and then chose to sell at a lower price than cost.

However, and here is the problem - when the price does come down (likely after the shorts capitulate) , it will literally be a stampede to finally get out. It is unknown how sell orders will be processed... if at all at that point. So the later you get in the more likely you are to be burned, in the disordely unwinding scenario.

Early adopters will be ok. Holders and latecomers will not.
Only because I think it's prudent to wait until more information is available (than was provided in the original link) before talking about violent repercussions.

I have little doubt that it's happening, but the twitter link was not substantive in comparison to:

https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-...
Yes, they earned more revenue than Wall Street analysists estimated they would.
I think that todays terrorism is mainly state sponsored, terrorist organisation use different types of resentment when recruiting new members, however many of the terrorist organisations are funded by governments around the world, this is the modern form of covert warfare in the post cold war era.

What we have is that one government, lets call it the States of Merica, funds & trains freedom fighters in a country called Lyria. Sometime after this Lyria is thrown into huge & devastating civil war against the regime where the opposing terrorist forms a new entity, the Salami State.

The civil war results in massive refugee crisis. Refugees flees north into the big trade union called Äuropean Club, ÄC. ÄC happens to be allied with States of Merica. Terrorists from the Salami State infiltrates the refugees and travels to ÄC where they commit a horrific terrorist attack in the capital city of Sirap. President of the States of Merica is chocked by these horrible news and pledges to help it's friends in the ÄC.

This leads the ÄC to adopt surveillance measures to track any potential terrorist. To its help it uses the knowhow and infrastructure from their close friends States of Merica (obviously).

When the civil war in Lyria nears it end and the Salami State is almost defeated, suddenly the winning Lyrian regime commits a gas attack on innocent civilians in a Salami State stronghold. ÄC and States of Merica condemns the gas attack and bombs the Lyrian regime as punishment. The freedom fighters rejoice because they now can fight for freedom a few more years.

The Salami State still exists and continue to get help from somewhere, unknown by whom, and commits more terrorist attacks in ÄC, in cities like Ockholm and Womanchester, because ÄC still haven't fixed it's border problem, but coincidentally ÄC has instead developed an excellent surveillance program, which is if course needed when the border is wide opened to the Salami state, duh!

All this is of course highly speculative and shares no resemblance with the real world.

So yes, if we fix terrorism because of like uh poverty, it can probably be solved.
It's still so bizarre to me to see techno-libertarians act like a few extremely popular social media platforms run by private companies is some kind of government, and that their first amendment rights are somehow under attack.
What's terrifying to me here is how little actual law enforcement there is against the rich and well connected, when they do wrong. If you allow a rigged game, it will rot the entire system.
Totally. You know Uber has yet to turn a profit? This is in spite of talking as much of an advantage of a labor force as possible.
it's.. not your project. if you disagree, fork away. your anger is on you.
It is worse than an attack on their own citizens - it is an attack on their own citizens best described as "nationally suicidal" - their finance systems depend upon end to end encryptions and they depend upon them for funding which keeps them afloat. These are complete fucking morons who would be the dog who not only caught the car but a nuclear waste truck.
So, one aspect of this post is: a) a lot of prior work has assumed that "comprehension" and "reading" are the same and b) reading is a bad approach to understanding code.

For me, this also calls to mind an old blog post from Peter Seibel about a disconnect where many of us think that we should all be reading code for our own understanding, somewhat like literature, but very few of us do and it rarely yields much. And one of the reasons why it seems that style of reading is ineffective, is that coming to an understanding of code is more like a scientific investigation than just reading prose.

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/

I agree with that point. I also agree that we need to be able to create tools that deal with software systems more easily.

But I also think two other perspectives are important:

- One is the historical perspective. The code-base is rarely a coherent whole. Two different areas may accomplish similar things with different tactics. The design of a component may be ill-suited to the way it is now being used. What is an intentional choice, and what is an accident? Which past choices should my current project align with? We typically read the code as it exists currently, and look at specific parts of the history only as a supplement, because even visualizing history is complex. But understanding why choices were made, and in what context, can be critical to knowing which things can now be changed.

- The other is that reading code shows us a complex intensional definition, and reading tests gives us a partial view of an extensional definition (in case X we get behavior Y). But to "understand" programs enough to proficiently change them, we have to grokk something like the neighborhood around our current program: How would a given change in the code change the behavior? Being able to interactively change and re-run a program, and compare behavior before and after is in some sense like doing finite difference method differentiation.
I do some research with some people on a dead simple new low level encoding for new protocols called Tree Notation.

It's all public domain.

I plug it a lot here when I see something relevant, which
this post is (and I've long been a fan of the Knight orgs
and supporter of them).

Anyway, always happy to chat with people about how this stuff could help a new generation of simple open protocols:

Homepage: (needs a refresh)
https://treenotation.org/

Demos: (also needs a refresh)
https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/
How is Robinhood in danger through all of this? My understanding is they make money by selling order flow. If anything, they're losing money by halting trades?
Ive been watching the community for atleast 4 years now, and for the most part it's is just random people that use options to gamble (i.e. wild shots at trying to make money but they do have some knowledge). Either way, while terms like retard, autist, and gay are used frequently I've yet to see any racism or any xenophobia whatsoever in the community. And any insinuation of it is usually shut down fast. And While they use that mantra I think WSB is very unlike 4chan (although my exposure to 4chan is extremely limited) and its racism/hate speech.
I'm not an expert but it seems to me that this whole 100% thing is a total red herring. If I (A) have 50 shares in GME, I let you (B) borrow them and short sell them to person (C), person (C) now owns them, you (B) can borrow them from person (C) and short sell them to person (D). Suddenly you've short sold the same stock twice.The only issue for you is that you now need to buy back 100 stock to pay off what you've borrowed, which you could do buying the stock from person (D), giving it back to person (C), buying them frmo person (C) and giving it back to person (A).

The only issue comes if someone notices that you've done this, pushes the price up to the point where you have to exit your position because your broker won't let you hold this short position that you can't afford to pay for. At that point you must exit, which drives the price up even further because you're creating demand for the stock.

What's important to notice about this is that the second you're no longer short the stock, no one has any incentive to hold the stock. So it'll return to $20 and all those super smart boys on WSB who were holding out for $2000 have thousands of shares of a worthless retail stock that they probably bought on margin and are going to lose everything.
Translation: we're gonna IPO soon and we want the hedge funds to treat us well.
Hey Steven!
I'm familiar with you guys and actually recommended you in one of the posts. Love what you are doing. We are both helping more people enjoy the benefits of rowing.
A few things happened around that time that might of contributed. Movement to a fiat currency as opposed to the gold standard, women joined the workforce in larger numbers through the 70's and 80's, globalization as a concept was born and outsourcing boomed.
It’s clear who’s mad when news media is equating this to the capitol riot.
Pump and dump schemes being regulated being framed as a free speech issue? I don't know if it is productive to make this about free speech. The purpose of life isn't just to emit speech, and indeed the purpose of WSB is for people to exhort other people to action and that action is to buy and sell certain stocks, so that a subset of participants can profit and other people lose their capital. "Speech" is not the central issue or the most interesting one to me about this case, it is rather more interesting to see how mobs can be formed and influenced to take action.
I don't think it's a repeatable strategy. Institutions that didn't knew that already just learned that it's wise to monitor places like /r/WSB and possibly to hire someone to run interference and prevent the next pileup (unless one is desired, that is).
Isn't r/wallstreetbets the logical outcome of Robinhood's business strategy? When you combine free, frictionless trading with online communities I don't really see any other outcome and it will keep happening.
There is absolutely nothing stopping the members of WSB from pooling their money to start an angel fund, VC fund, or any other form of private equity. You don’t need special Wall Street credentials to do that, just some money and a lawyer.

That’s a pretty long-term bet, though, and I don’t think WSB is usually into those.
They can set margin requirement separately for each stock.

For example, with InteractiveBrokers "long stock positions [of AMC, BB, EXPR, GME, and KOSS] will require 100% margin and short stock positions will require 300% margin until further notice".

https://twitter.com/IBKR/status/1354792600004386818
Restaurants charge 4-5x the cost of ingredients. So I take it you never eat out?
Any recommendations on a good registrar?
If you believe "American antifa" is a group in any kind of sense, you haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about.
As the 'publisher', I used to abide by a philosophy of not publishing a newsletter in a space I didn't understand. While this has helped with quality control, this was probably not a great business idea as it's meant we've missed out on a lot of growth areas I'm personally not technically au fait with (Elixir and Rust come to mind).
You're just being stubborn. TSLA investors are not relying on a short squeeze. You keep conveniently ignoring the short squeeze. The people who got into GME early are relying on marketing this David v Goliath falsehood so that they can jump off early and make a ton of money in a very short period.

I suggest you read up on shorting and pump-dumps. TSLA investors believe the company is changing the world and has enormous growth opportunity.
>but who has been cast as the reason for them is vastly different.

Different solutions as well.
How is that not illegal?
So the conclusion is we need a Apache v2 license with a extra "this software as a service" forbidding clause...
£600 for a 4K 60 inches screen is not bad at all: https://www.ebuyer.com/910715-nec-60004548-50-large-format-d...
sounds like anti-monopoly laws should be enforced then, which is a separate problem.
On margin.

https://twitter.com/IBKR/status/1354792600004386818
If focusing on e2ee I agree, but how about hardware and software supply chains? How much is your e2ee worth if you are up against Apple or Google? Perhaps nation states are simply looking for similar powers?
Ah, that actually make sense. I don't see how RH allows sell, but not buy. That's just insanely corrupt because it clearly manipulates the market.
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Some age effects are cohort effects. I should know, I'm from the last generation in the UK with no student debt. Everyone younger than me is worse off and will remain worse off as they age.
So does Toyota, which makes more things that more people want to buy, and yet is only valued at a quarter of Tesla.
Why do they care this time. No one cared in 2000 and the 2008 bubble. No one cared that new investors are bidding up worthless SPAC and new public companies. Why do they all a suddenly care that retail is going to lose a ton of money when retail always loses a ton of money. Retail always joins the bubble towards the end of the cycle.
> Capability based security … allowed you to run any program, with no danger to your system.

‘No danger to your system’ shouldn't be conflated with ‘no danger to you.’ The problem with capabilities is that they reinforce and solidify the ‘smartphone model’: your data isn't yours, it's an app's, so what you're permitted to do with it is entirely controlled by someone else.
Watching some CNBC clips yesterday is what convinced to put a couple hundred bucks into GME for the hell of it.

I'm pretty lucky, I happened to like computers and got into a field that pays decently well for now. I have no illusions that that I'm not working class though. I watched my parents nearly get crushed in 07/08. I graduated into a economic war zone. Watching the banks get bailed out as I went to parties hosted by kids whose parents were losing the house. Seeing the kids who used to live in the house encourage everyone to punch holes in the drywall because fuck the bank.

I haven't forgotten what Wall Street did to us. The wealth inequality in this country is insane. The elites have been treating the working class like dirt for decades now.

With that context... those CNBC clips made me livid. Fuck the Wall Street propaganda. I'll chip in my little piece if there's a remote chance of taking down one or two of the vultures who are destroying this country with their greed. Much of the finance class that runs this country builds nothing, provides nothing, and tears down communities so they can shake a few coins out of the wreckage.

In talking with my friends who voted for Trump, this is the first time I've been able to feel on the page as them in a long time. There is class rage at play here. People are sick of this system.
They site the Occupancy Networks paper as [33]. But I thought that one also used octrees? Which they are saying is supposed to be novel.
For RDBMS, Firebird SQL has managed to survive well in this sphere, for all of it's warts.

You can run it either as an embedded DLL or as a standalone server, and changing between the two is often just a connection string change; It seems to be fairly popular in the POS space for this reason.
Agreed. But your original point would be stronger if you could provide actual examples of passed EU legislation that was "snuck in".
FTR making a good smart watch is a hard problem. Acquiring a company that's already put in the hard work is more resource efficient than scaling that mountain yourself.
Nah. "You can only sell up to 0 shares of GME."
I am currently hosting a website that has been around in pretty much the same form since the 1990's: http://www.marinerkayaks.com/ (https://web.archive.org/web/19991013075202/http://www.marine...) When their previous host crapped out, I had to recreate it from a combination of crappy old wysiwyg tool files and archive.org snapshots.

I'm glad I get to do it, it is an important part of our communities history and the "stolen kayak spreadsheet" still gets updated...
I think a very important reason why people don't run their own USENET node or Gitlab instance is because it's not easy. In fact, it's the opposite of easy. It's extremely difficult in the long run. If using your own server was as easy as using an iPhone, then we would see way more people doing it.
CNET also known as the source for economic and social movement reporting is combining both in an article? Strange. They wouldn't be trying monetize a popular trending topic would they? Won't even open this click bait garbage.
Also translation: "We think you'll come back, but if the people who pay us - the hedgefunds go under - then we'll be shit out of luck too. Sorry not sorry".
She talks the talk, but I haven't seen much walking the walk yet out of her or any of the justice democrats, really. Time will tell on that point. If I were a betting man I'd put money on them becoming shepherds for the veal pen.
"Intentional financial harm" is not illegal, otherwise shorting stocks would be illegal. There is also no court precedence for normal market maneuvers that happen to have a significantly negative outlook on a company. Imagine if Gamestop sued TD Ameritrade for facilitating short market orders for Goldman Sachs? It would be a joke. Same thing for if Melvin sues--they over exposed themselves and paid for it.

There's nothing here that's illegal. Insider Trading, Pump and dump schemes, etc all require coordinated distribution or communication of false and/or non-public information. What's happening with GME is happening in the public, in full view of everyone, with a goal of exploiting a hedge fund that overexposed itself through a short squeeze. Short squeezes are legal, and have a large storied history over the last couple decades.
It may have started for the lulz but has seemingly morphed into a culture war/statement. I think for each person involved, it means something unique to them, which is culturally and historically significant.
The story is that they're subservient to interests which are losing money from the GME shorts.
I think the argument remains that GME is not fundamentally a near-worthless company and some of these investors are probably right that it was hugely undervalued by all the funds shorting it (maybe not to the tune of $400 a share, but many of those investors have seemed to have been whales, not average joes). Retail is down in the pandemic, but it is not out. My opinions that GME is the biggest pawn shop operation in the US makes me look down on the shops from a high horse that I don't currently feel a need in my personal life for pawn shops, but America as whole will always need pawn shops.
"We won't let you buy GME on margin anymore" would be a reasonable idea. "We won't let you buy GME in cash" is ridiculous.
Wow, you really have no idea what this is all about.
When things ring hollow, that is like nails on a chalkboard.
Wired covered the "myth of meritocracy" as it pertains to entrepreneurship and Silicon Valley 8 years ago:

https://www.wired.com/2013/11/silicon-valley-isnt-a-meritocr...
From TFA:

> People are fed up with the financial industrial complex, which favors the already-rich and people over the age of 40.

This I'm scratching my head over. Do people on wsb think that "people over 40" are conspiring against them just because they've been able to have longer positions than a 20 year old? Do they not realize that someday (if they're lucky), they too will be over 40?
>I still don't understand how Tesla is valued so high when they're still figuring out panel gaps.

This comment reads like "I don't understand Apple is valued so high when they still have the exact same basic bugs in production for over 10 years".

And they do! Some bugs are just never going to get fixed in a system of that size and scale.
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People were shorting this stock when it was an order of magnitude less expensive. Isn't it an even more attractive short target now?
Do you happen to have a link to that thread? I'd be curious to see if there are others I should be adding to my battery of questions
What a betrayal of their customers. Really going mask-off with what it means for a startup to "democratize" an industry: allowing the little guy to chip in, but never actually compete with the big boys.
>> Let's be real. This is small potatoes.

Agree. It is not like there aren't half a dozen apps that let you trade stocks commission free on your phone. Some may require you to have $500-$1k to invest, but seriously if you don't have that you should invest in a different way then treading individual stocks.

That said, I have no idea why Robin Hood should ban the trading of GME and I wish they wouldn't.
No browser I ever used offers a good solution to not only store
bookmarks but also being good at finding them again.

In contrast a hierarchical tab structure can act both as the
stuff I'm currently working on as well as a way to store all
things I find interesting in named groups. If you didn't
manually tag all your bookmarks, ideally with a consistent
naming scheme, finding certain sites again can be quite a task.
But I know what tab group a certain website that I last used 2
years ago and can't remember the name/url of has to be in. It's
basically the web version of a file manager. Why would I spend
time to organise bookmarks in some folder structure if the
structure already exists in the tab bar, always up to date?
I pity the poor Chihuahuas. A living example of how monstrous Man can be.
I don't think the company legal benefit legal benefit can reliably be used in a situation where you have a conflict with your employer. Sometimes there is a specific exception in the benefit, but even if not there's an implicit conflict of interest.
They can make profit any moment, by killing Uber Eats and focusing on ride segment, which is very profitable. Look at financials.